PREFACE
Though written somewhat after the fashion of Srinatha's Veethi, this book has deviated from it in many points as the reader will see. My book, unlike Srinatha's, is not confined to a description of the peculiarities of Telugu Women and it is more over free from the morbid taste which is met with in the pages of Srinatha's book. This pamphlet termed the "Brahmana Prasamsa" treats of the Brahmins and forms the opening chapter to my intended work viz. a description of all the principal castes of the Telugu people. It might be said by some that I am not altogether impartial and that the remarks applied to one sect may, with equal truth and force, be applied to another. To this I can only say that I am as impartial as I can be, and that poetic fancy can not be althogether judged by any hard and fast rule. I may also say that among others it is my object in writing this to smooth down the many and unpleasant differences between sect and sect and in fact in this, as well as in some of my previous books, I have ventured to preach my pet exhortation Inter-marriages among sub-sects of Brahmins and their advantages.
In the latter portion of the book which has been printed during my absence in a distant place, one may find wrong punctuation here and there and I beg to say that such will be carefully corrected in the second edition.
